Wildlife

Mammals

All mammals give birth to young which are milk fed and protected by the mother. Mammals generally give birth to fewer offspring than insects or reptiles because of this fact.

Carnivores control the population numbers of herbivores. Carnivores select the weaker animals as prey therefore ensuring survival of the fittest and healthy animals

The kind of grazer you will see in the Kruger National park partly depends on the state and species of grass in that area.

Different grazes have different preferences about the height of the grass they eat. Zebra graze medium-height grass and are often followed by wildebeest that prefer very short grass.

Wooded, bushy areas cannot feed as many animals as the same sized grasslands. Browsers therefore tend to be solitary or in small groups.

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Trees

The Kruger Park hosts over 200 'tree size' trees and about another 180 shrubs or 'shrub trees'.

These trees are found in several different ecological areas within the park - these plant communities have, over the last million years or so, been influenced by the various geological systems in the park.

Parent rock and associated soil types play the most important part in these systems of which there are roughly 20 or so zones in the Kruger Park.

Field guides to the trees of the Kruger Park can be purchased through Beard heron Safaris.